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Quarterly Nuclear Deployment Summary, January 2013

January 30, 2013 - 5:59pm

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Quarterly Updates

On October 22 Dominion Resources Inc. announced that it would close and decommission its Kewaunee Power Station located in Carlton, Wis. after failing to find a buyer for the plant. The company said that the plant closure was a purely economic decision resulting from low projected wholesale electricity prices. Power production will cease in the second quarter of 2013.

On November 20, 2012, the Department of Energy announced that it had selected the Generation mPower team as a recipient for Government cost-shared funding as part of its Small Modular Reactor Licensing Technical Support program. The Department also announced plans to issue a follow-on solicitation open to other companies and manufacturers, focused on furthering small modular reactor efficiency, operations and design.

On November 28 Lehigh Heavy Forge Corporation announced an agreement with Babcock and Wilcox Company to fabricate and qualify large forgings for the B&W mPower SMR. Forgings would be manufactured at Lehigh Heavy Forge’s Bethlehem facility in Bethlehem, PA.

Regulatory Status

Eighteen Combined Construction and Operating License (COL) applications have been docketed, ten of which (totaling 16 nuclear reactors) remain under active NRC review. NRC reviews of five applications were suspended due to utility economic considerations. Review of the Fermi and South Texas Project applications could continue after submittal of additional technical information; in addition, the South Texas Project and Calvert Cliffs applications face foreign ownership issues. The Reference COL (R-COL) application has been submitted for five reactor designs; subsequent COLs (S-COLs) will incorporate the corresponding R-COL application by reference, noting any site-specific departures. Southern Nuclear’s Vogtle Units 3 and 4 and SCE&G’s VC Summer Units 2 and 3 have received COLs.

UTILITY

SITE/LOCATION

REACTOR/NO. UNITS

COLA DATES

REVIEW PHASE

IN PROGRESS

Submitted

Docketed

Issued

Safety 4

Environ.5

Issued

Southern Nuclear

Vogtle

GA

AP1000

2

03/31/08

05/30/08

02/10/12

Completed

Completed

SCE&G

V.C. Summer

SC

AP1000

2

03/27/08

07/31/08

04/10/12

Completed

Completed

Active COL Applications

Progress Energy

Levy

FL

AP1000

2

7/30/08

10/6/08

-

Ph. D

Completed

STP Nuclear Operating Co.

South Texas Project

TX

ABWR 1

2

9/20/07

11/29/07

-

Ph. 4

Completed

Luminant (TXU)

Comanche Peak

TX

US-APWR 1

2

9/19/08

12/2/08

-

Ph. 2

Completed

UniStar

Calvert Cliffs

MD

US-EPR 1

1

3/14/08

6/3/08

-

Ph. 2

Completed

DTE Energy

Fermi

MI

ESBWR 1

1

9/18/08

11/25/08

-

Ph. B

Ph. 3

Duke Energy

William States Lee

SC

AP1000

2

12/13/07

2/25/08

-

Ph. B

Ph. 3

Florida Power and Light

Turkey Point

FL

AP1000

2

6/30/09

9/4/09

-

Ph. A

Ph. 2

PPL (UniStar)

Bell Bend

PA

US-EPR

1

10/10/08

12/19/08

-

Ph. A

Ph. 2

Progress Energy

Shearon Harris

NC

AP1000

2

2/19/08

4/17/08

-

Ph. B

Ph. 2

Dominion Energy

North Anna

VA

US-APWR

1

11/27/07

1/28/08

-

Ph. A

Ph. 2

1 Reference COL Application (R-COL)

4 Safety Review:

R-COL®

Ph 1 Issue RAIs

Ph 2 SER w/Open Items

Ph 3 ACRS Review

Ph 4 Advanced SER/ No OI

Ph 5 ACRS Review

Ph 6 Final SER

S-COL®

Ph A Issue RAIs and supplemental RAIs

Ph B Advanced SER/ No OI

Ph C ACRS Review

Ph D Final SER

5 Environmental Review Phases:

Ph 1 Environmental Scoping Report

Ph2 Draft EIS

Ph3 Public comment

Ph4 Final EIS

Small modular reactors are defined as having a capacity of less than 300 MWe. Nine SMR vendors have initiated contact with the NRC regarding their reactor designs. Four of these designs are domestic Light Water-based designs. While all four will submit DC applications, B&W and Holtec have plans to submit Construction Permits under 10CFRPart 50, as well.

Company

Reactor

Size (MWe)

Application

Expected Submittal Date

Light Water Reactors

Babcock &Wilcox mPower, Inc.

mPower SMR

180

DC

CP

Mid 2014

TBD

Holtec International

SMR-160

160

CP

DC

Mid 2014

March 2015

NuScale Power, LLC

NuScale SMR

45

DC

Late 2014

Westinghouse Electric Co.

W-SMR

225

DC

Mid to Late 2013

Advanced

Non- LWRs

Department of Energy

NGNP

TBD

COL

FY2013

GEH

PRISM

311

DC

TBD

Gen4 Energy

G4M

25

DC

TBD

PBMR Ltd.

PBMR

165

DC

FY2013

Toshiba

4S

10

TBD

TBD

Reactor Design Certification (DC)

Summary: Two reactor designs that are being considered for future builds are certified and two renewal applications are under NRC review.